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I just wanted to say that it really speaks to how well-thought and professional this comic is when you make Andi look remarkably different at age 13 than she does later, rather than just making her shorter. It’s a small touch, and one of many in the comic, but it really shows that you’ve thought hard about the character’s lives, and it’s a really great thing.

So, I’m not sure I’m getting what’s happening here — the girl is Andi, and the boy must be Max. But I’m not sure what’s happening present-day:

(1) They took all the mounds of stuff Sir Allan was getting rid of — so Max is thinking that the piles of stuff may include the musical materials that Janet is asking about, and is shuddering from realizing he’s rich, rich, I tell you, rich! (or possibly trying to stop from peeing himself) in the last panel?

Or alternately, (2) They didn’t take the stuff, so the musical materials went in the trash, and Max is shuddering from despair, because he realizes he missed the gravy train?

Yep! This is right after Sir Allan moved in to the neighbourhood. When he was unpacking, he found all this stuff that in his old house had been buried, forgotten. The movers just got in there and moved everything. So here he is throwing it all out. Also, this is when Max starts to get interested in acting, being fascinated that the guy he’s watching in all the tapes from these boxes, is the same guy who lives next door.

Now, Max sits on a *potential* goldmine. But… how valuable is Sir Allan’s friendship to him? Because I’m pretty sure the last “LANDFILL” is directed at Max. I think Sir Allan is looking directly at him when he says it.